CVE-2009-0798

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2009-0798 · Published 24/04/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2009-0798 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting acpid (tim hockin).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.3%, higher than 83.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
acpid tim_hockin	`= 0.99.0= 0.99.1= 0.99.4= 1.0.0= 1.0.1= 1.0.2= 1.0.3= 1.0.4= 1.0.6= 20010510≤ 1.0.8`	No fix yet

Description

ACPI Event Daemon (acpid) before 1.0.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and connectivity loss) by opening a large number of UNIX sockets without closing them, which triggers an infinite loop.

References

secunia.com/advisories/34838 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/34914
secunia.com/advisories/34918
secunia.com/advisories/35010
secunia.com/advisories/35209
secunia.com/advisories/35231
debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1786
gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200905-06.xml
mandriva.com/security/advisories
redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0474.html
securityfocus.com/bid/34692
securitytracker.com/id
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-766-1
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi · Patch
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50060

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